Picture "Happy" (2020) (Unique piece)
Picture "Happy" (2020) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on nettle | unframed | size 50 x 50 cm
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Picture "Happy" (2020) (Unique piece)
Oil on nettle, 2020. Signed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 50 x 50 cm as shown.
About Dietmar Brixy
Art out of a pumping station: In 2001, the painter and sculptor Dietmar Brixy bought a former sewage pumping station in Mannheim, Germany, which was built in 1903, and converted it into a flat, studio and exhibition hall. Brixy needs the space with the huge building halls because many of his paintings measure several metres.
His works impress due to their strong colours, which he sometimes applies impasto in thick layers, and other times, almost transparently, creating a relief-like structure. Brixy does not paint figuratively, he claims that, despite all their optical abstraction, his paintings always trace nature.
Dietmar Brixy, born in 1961 in Mannheim, studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and has been working very successfully as a freelance artist since 1991.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art that has been personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolours, drawing, etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there exist the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a type of modern art, that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
In the history of arts, the starting point of this trend was the work "Les Meules" (1890/1891) by Claude Monet, in which for the first time a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.